As it happened: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, Dr Ashley Bloomfield give COVID-19 outbreak update as locations of interest balloon

  • 19/08/2021

This livestream is expected to start at 1pm. 

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield are giving a COVID-19 update at the Beehive in Wellington. 

It comes as the number of locations of interest has ballooned to more than 100 across Auckland and the Coromandel. There are nine cases in the cluster, and one case not yet linked - an Air New Zealand worker in her 60s. 

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